 ‘shapeshifter’ [concerto for E flat clarinet and ensemble] Dedicated to Gleb Kanasevich :: clarinet in Eb [soloist] and ensemble: flute, violin, violoncello, guitar, piano and percussion [1]* Premiere at soundSCAPE Festival Maccagno, Italy, directed and premiered by Gleb Kanasevich with Christian Smith [percussion] Lisa Cella, Tristan McKay [piano] Jeremy Bass, Mark Fewer and James Burch.

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Shapeshifter (timecode-supported polytemporal concerto for E-flat clarinet and ensemble).

Marc Yeats is an internationally renowned composer and visual artist whose compositions have been performed by the most noted of orchestras and ensembles across the globe. These include UK companies such as The London Sinfonietta and The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and the Halle Orchestra and Chorus. Further afield, Marc’s work has also been performed by the Tokyo City Philharmonic, the Atlanta based, Chamber Cartel, and many others. His compositions have gained great acclaim through many radio broadcasts for the BBC and also been broadcast in many other countries including the US, Germany and New Zealand.

Marc’s relationship with the BBC is both strong and enduring, starting with a BBC Scotland performance by the Edinburgh String Quartet more than 20 years ago. His first orchestral work – I See Blue – conducted by Martyn Brabbins, received much acclaim when first performed around the same time. This led to specific BBC commissions, including a piano concerto to open Piano 2000 in Manchester, with Kathryn Stott as soloist, and a solo harpsichord piece ‘Rhema’, performed by Mahan Esfahani and broadcast in 2010 by BBC Radio 3 from the Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall in Leeds.

Selection as one of just 10 to attend the legendary Hoy Summer School in 1994 brought Marc into contact with the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. At the completion of the course, Max was keen to support and promote Marc’s work, and conducted his first commission with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the St. Magnus Festival in 1997. He and Marc continued to share ideas, and Max took a great interest in Marc’s visual art and compositional work with mobile technologies and a range of asynchronous structural approaches to composition.

Marc is excited to have recently been appointed composer-in-residence to Yeovil District and Dorchester County Hospitals, a position he has also held with other UK and US organisations. Work such as My Blood Is As Red As Yours’ (an orchestral and choral piece commissioned by the Halle to celebrate World Aids Day in 2008 and performed at the Bridgewater Hall) and recent work, such as ‘shapeshifter’ and ‘the observation quartets’ continues to enhance his reputation as a leading contemporary composer.

Antara Annemarie Borg Composer/Singer/Writer/Tutor/Visual Artist and environmentalist
Style: Post Ambient Acousmatic and Live Music inspired by Nature. Acoustic/lyrical/visual Ecology.
http://www.ambientmusicconference.com/annemarieborg.html
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Antara means from the heart...
London Antara Festival of Music and Art, Creativity a tool for change...
2013...2015...2016...2017
Festival video is now on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4fcTNUI_6Y
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Diana Mavroleon in conversation with Annemarie Borg 12 May 
"Annemarie Borg's work is eclectic in that it traverses both mixed media and the individual/separate forms of music, words, poetry, sounds and the visual arts. As Founder of the ‘Antara Project’ Borg uses art forms as tools to deal with her main concerns: the fundamental changes in social and cultural environments and how these affect the present day and generations to come. “In today's world we have created our own challenge, are we now up to the task of facing it? In this task what is the part Artists can assume?” (AMB). Antara aims to build a louder voice through Art and will result in a compilation album and a day conference/performance later this year. Borg’s ‘live’ shows range from classical repertoire to experimental music with organic sound-scapes, electronica, improvisation, often in collaboration with other musicians...
Resurgence Magazine Dec 2012 Jan 2013: review by Lorna Howarth
"Antara is a fresh and innovative project that curates Art as if the future matters. "For a future worth living, we must invest in creativity now" says Annemarie. (the full interview and review is available on my website and at Resurgence.org)
 
Her current projects include: “Still Motion” "Cameos" "perceptions" "Kantele" and "Antara/YWhales"-a mix of  live performances started in Spring 2012 in London (Classical meets Ambient, Jazz and Electronic with improvisations on canvases of atmospheric tones and moods) and recording projects. Two new album released in July 2013. Born in Paris, with a French/Swedish background, Borg was a child musician who went on to study Business and International Law in Paris, and Music, Opera, Performance and Acting in London. www.annemarieborg.com  http://antara-project.com/ www.informal4u.com  

Antara Project (founded by Annemarie Borg in 2010) The first meeting of the Antara group of artists took place on 15 of February 2011 in London West End. It is brought together professional artists, musicians, performers, directors, film makers, journalists, writers, poets and any one involved in a professional way with Art or artists, and education.
It is in 3 phases: 
phase 1 release of an album of various artists Music and visual Art "Breaking Through" in March 2013...for sale now.
phase 2: Festival day in London on the 8 June 2013 http://antara-project.com/festival/ see video and reviews
Phase 3: 2015/16/17 Annemarie will take the project abroad as well as contribute to facilitating similar ventures increasing the impact Creativity has in our world today, setting up a series of lectures about Creativity and our education system.

Composer/Artist (signed to Monochrome Motif Records); Arts Council & Lottery supported creative entrepreneur; tutor & module leader, ICMP; Fresh on the Net moderator & reviews writer: blogger: author, husband & dad.

Richard Nye is a composer based in the UK.  His instrumental, electronic and choral works have been performed, broadcast (most recently on BBC Radio 3), recorded and published worldwide.
His first published work, Three Pyrotechnics for Solo Clarinet (1993 - pub. Cascade Music Publishing) is now included as part of the Trinity College Advanced Clarinet repertoire.

Richard was a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral and began composing at a young age. Guided by the Cheltenham-based composer Tony Hewitt-Jones whilst he was still at school, he later went on to study music in London, receiving his South Bank debut with 8 'til Late (8 hands on 2 pianos) performed at the South Bank Centre in 2001 by Piano 40. The work was later released on CD by Regent Records and his multi-hand piano works have been performed in the United States, Europe and Asia.

He has composed music inspired by works of art, most notably Circus! based on the Circus Prints by the late Eric James Mellon, and Annunciation based on the painting of the same name by American artist, John Collier.
Richard also works with synthesisers, samples, historical recordings and visual media. His orchestral work Icarus was used alongside a short animated film. Richard received his New York debut in 2013 with the micro-opera Bucca, a piece that formed the basis of the 20 minute multimedia piece, Edge of the World, a collaborative project that won a 2016 Gorsedth Kernow award. In recent years he has frequently collaborated with his sister, the writer Kate Aranda Nye, on a number of scored audio story projects.

Richard continues to combine experimental works such as Underworld performed at the University of Bremen in 2014 by Juan María Solare, with contemporary choral and instrumental compositions.
Recent projects have included Tronow, a new 8 hands on 2 pianos piece that received a first performance at the South Bank Centre in 2018, the score for the short audiobook story The Silence of Snow and two new anthems for SATB. His Missa Brevis was featured at the 2018 London Festival of Contemporary Church Music and is now published by Banks Music Publishing. 

2022 has seen a flurry of activity with the arrival of a new collection of pieces for solo piano which is to be published, a set of new electronic compositions and a series of concert performances of his music.  
Richard also provided some of the original music for a recent Skyrim game quest Prince of Lies.